Motivational Quotes

Character

I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

- Peter The Great

Best Quotes about Character

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Leneru, Marie

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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.